Improvement in clothes and hat racks



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IMPROVEMENT IN C'LOTHES AND HAT RACKS.A

Speoilication forming part of Letters Patent No. l 58,476, dated January 5, 1875; application iiled July 22, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RUssELL R. DORE, of Burlington, county of Des Moines and State ot' Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes and Hat Racks, of which the following is a specication:

This invention relates to improvements in devices upon which to hang hats, clothes, or other articles; and the nature thereof consists in the arrangement of the bars or rails for sustaining' the hooks, in series of pairs, sustained by suitably-constructed brackets in which they are removably secured, and by which they may be easily ljXed in any desired location, the hooks being' also adjustable upon the bars or rails, as hereinafter more fully set forth.

To enable others skilled in the art to make anduse my invention, I will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawing, which illustrates my vinvention, and in which the similar letters used as marks of reference apply to the like parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a perspective view of a rack elnbodying my invention, and Xed in place on a wall. Fig. 2 is a front elevation ot' Fig. l; and Fig. 3 is a side elevation of one ot' the hooks.

Referring to the parts by letters, letters A A represent plain cylindrical metallic bars or rails, threaded at each end for the reception of the cap-nuts a. B B are brackets, pierced with holes for the reception of the rails A, and for the passage of screw-nails b b, for securing them on any suitable place or wall, O. D D are the hooks, formed as plainly shown in the drawings, their upper portions a single 4 bar bent outward to form an upper hook, d, their lower portion biiurcated and bent outward and upward, to form two lower hooks, d d', Each of the branches d has a lug, d,

projecting from its rear side, which is pierced with a hole through which the lower rail, A, m'ay pass, and theupper single portion has a similar lug, df, through which the upper rail may similarly pass, or the body of the hooks may be pierced to form eyes for suspending them on the rails. E represents another forni of hook-a single bar, bent outward into hook form at its upper and lower ends, and provided on its rear side with eyes e e, which allow it to be suspended on the bars A, as shown at Fig. l.

It will be obvious that either or both bars A may be readily and easily removed by unscrewing the cap-nuts c from either end thereof, and the hooks placed thereon in any desired numbers which can be contained by the length of the rails A, and may be slid freely on said bars to adjust their positions. he brackets may be adjusted and fixed in position upon any desired wall, standard, or other support, the bars A being attachable or detach able from them either before or after their positions are fixed, and the positions ofthe hooks being adjustable before or after the positions of the brackets are iXed. The bracketsB maybe eX- tended in length, so as to receive a series ot' pairs of rails, A A, and may be provided with hooks or eyes for suspending the rack conven'iently.

The advantages of this construction of the hooks and method of suspending them are deemed obvious without explanation here.

The combination of the rods or series of removable rods A A, brackets B, screw cap-nu ts a, and adjustable hooks D, substantially `as and for the purpose specilied.

RUSSELL R. DDRR. Witnesses:

E. C. BLAGKMAE, J. CULLATON. 

